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Brandon Davies (who has been key in big wins) has been kicked off the BYU basketball team for an unknown Honor Code violation.

I'm sad about Davies, but I like this:

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=6174077

Jimmer

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/22753/jimmer-mania-gives-us-epic-facebook-thread

Please read this. And make sure to click the link where it shows the whole thing.

Its Back!

I now have the tools to terrorize the internet once more. And waste a lot more time.

A Short History

Feb, 2010: Wifi card stops working.

March: Screen starts to die.

May: Laptop mailed in, returned with wifi good, screen bad

June-July: Laptop mailed in again, returned with screen better... then bad.

October: Screen dies completely

Another box is requested.

Mid October: Box never arrives.

Late October: Sony calls about box. I kindly tell them to stuff it.

November: Bring laptop to local repair place. Technician confident in cheap fix.

Late November: After three weeks I call. Finally told that to fix will cost $500 bucks (??). Try to charge a $50 diagnosis fee (for a diagnosis I gave them). I kindly tell them to stuff it.

December: Call Sony for box.

Mid December: Call because box hasn't arrived - "Oh, yeah,

sorry, we'll send it right away. Yes, that's the address we have."

Mid December: "Oh, right, no we'll send it this time for sure."

January 5th, 2010: "Oh........ um...... yeah......

We've been sending boxes to Alaska."

Januray 10th:

Now was that so hard?

to be continued....

Note:

I just realized that this blog has essentially become an adventure-reporting blog. I'm sorry. I'll try to mix it up in the future, ok? Ok.

Delta River: August in Alaska

Everyone except Mike (Sorry Mike) got two days off in Alaska about 2 weeks before the end of the season. Our purpose was to run the Delta from where it starts at Tangle Lakes until it reaches the Richardson Highway. This section is about 29 miles long, and is usually done over three days with a lot of beer and trout fishing along the way. We had neither beer nor time, so we were forced to do it in two.

We set off with mostly flat water and/or very shallow streams.

Picked a spot about 8 miles down river between two mountains for camp. There was no evidence that anyone had been there before. Like, ever.

Set off the following morning.

Portaged the only big rapids.

And lazily continued down the ol' Delta

And then prayed Alaskans were nice to hitch-hikers.

They were. The end.

PS. I think Scott has pictures of how we (mostly) fit two canoes, four guys and their stuff into a 15 passenger van.

Thanksgiving

So! This Thanksgiving break we decided that hanging around freezing-cold Provo was just soooo lame, and that a nice backpacking trip to warmer climes down south (Zion's National Park) would be most enjoyable.

We expected this:

Instead we got this:

And this:

And this:

But not this:

The plan was to stay three nights, but the backcountry ranger showed us the weather forecast, the most interesting part being a high of 17 on Wednesday. So we decided to skip out Tuesday evening. Even so, we got to enjoy a low of about 5 degrees Monday night. My camera's battery died that night, so Shtee will have to provide the photographic evidence after that.

Monday morning:

A tree:

View from Monday night campsite (Shtee's camera):

What we are looking at (seriously):

The end.